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Reposted by Kyle Whitmire

AL.com @al.com · 13h

"It’s almost like someone is trying to run out a clock," columnist @WarOnDumb.bsky.social writes.

Read more: https://www.al.com/news/2025/10/hold-the-line-tommy-tuberville-scandal-is-on-the-phone.html

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 19h

I don't want to hear States' Rights ever again.

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 19h

I will not back down.

Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power.

What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Donald Trump Truth Social Post: Chicago Mayor should be in jail for failing to protect Ice Officers! Governor Pritzker also.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 19h

Isn't it weird that the FBI phone "tapping" (it wasn't tapping) business dropped just as Pam Bondi was going before a US Senate committee to get grilled about Epstein and Homan? Timing is everything. www.al.com/news/2025/10...

Tommy Tuberville holds the line

Senate phone 'tapping' news breaks as AG Bondi goes before U.S. Senate. Weird timing, huh?

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 6d

No good deed …

www.al.com/news/2025/10...

Alabama doctor who replaced Fauci claims Trump administration fired her for whistle blowing, vaccine support

The former UAB director found out that she was fired from her position as NIH director three weeks after filing a whistleblower complaint on Sept. 4.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 7d

Finebaum for Senate? McCarron for lt. governor? Tuberville for anything? This is not a farce. It is another symptom of a broken system that lets the rich and famous skip to the front of the line. In Alabama, that means football.
www.al.com/news/2025/10...

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 10d

What a lovely column about a simple thing that might seem small but says much about who we’ve become. I won’t look at Union Station the same way again.
🎁🔗👉 wapo.st/3KnvPTq

Opinion | Why must we all suffer? Bring back the benches.

America is increasingly standing room only.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 11d

I’m doing some fun stuff over here. Come follow me in both places. www.instagram.com/warondumb

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 13d

Unless an alien invasion is imminent, this seems dumb.
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Hegseth orders rare, urgent meeting of hundreds of generals, admirals

The Pentagon has summoned military officials from around the world for a gathering in Virginia. Top generals and their staffs don’t know the reason for the meeting.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 14d

Perhaps our rights come from God, but they exist only so long as we agree they are real. And when that agreement breaks, we will not only have lost our rights but also our country. www.al.com/news/2025/09...

Whitmire: The Constitution needs a wellness check

Our rights exist only as long as we agree they are real.

www.al.com

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 19d

Is the First Amendment OK? Is freedom of speech still with us? It’s time we gave our old friend the Constitution a wellness check.

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AL.com @al.com · 27d

🔗: https://www.al.com/news/2025/09/whitmire-in-this-season-of-political-violence-birmingham-has-a-lesson-to-share.html

"Our short-term memories seldom have the opportunity to leap to lasting thoughts before some new tragedy trips their feet," columnist @warondumb.bsky.social writes.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 27d

My home has a lesson to share about such things, if we can find the time between tragedies to remember. 4/
www.al.com/news/2025/09...

In this season of political violence, Birmingham has a lesson to share

Public murder has become so frequent that there's no time to turn our grief into action and our anger into change.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 27d

Our expressions of grief never transform into an impetus for change, but only obligatory denunciations of violence as we wait for the next tragedy to strike. 3/

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 27d

Our short-term memories seldom have the opportunity to leap to lasting thoughts before some new tragedy trips their feet. 2/

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · 27d

America, it feels, is now a place punctuated by violence, not a period at the end of a sentence but an ellipsis, an unfinished thought, that lingers until it’s interrupted by another death. 1/

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Sep 4

Donald Trump moved Space Command from Colorado because … mail-in voting? That’s not the gift to Alabama some might think it is.

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Heather Cherone @heathercherone.bsky.social · Sep 2

BREAKING: Gov. JB Pritzker says the Trump administration has sent the Texas National Guard to Great Lakes Naval Base outside Chicago, awaiting orders to deploy to Chicago.
Trump administration officials will target Mexican Independence Day (Sept. 16) celebrations. @wttw.bsky.social

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Aug 31

Will the 2nd Amendment protect us? Don’t be silly. But the 6th might. Let’s discuss.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Aug 27

It happened again. What else is there to say? This will keep happening.

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Aug 27

But America deserves both. And also a little chicken in the dumplings, if you please. (26) www.al.com/news/2025/08...

Make hashbrown casserole great again

We should have known something was wrong when Cracker Barrel added a cocktail menu.

www.al.com

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Aug 27

He knows what good restaurant owners and managers know — people will forgive bad food before bad service. A bright smile gets you further than a better biscuit. (25)

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Aug 27

What the charlatans like Trump have figured out is that if you satisfy a simple disparity — like being heard — you don’t have to fix the hard stuff. Heck, you can even make it worse and get rich doing it. (24)

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Aug 27

There’s inequality of voice, of influence and cultural status. Even spiritual things like a sense of belonging or a higher purpose. Together, these disparities are the cauldron of magma bubbling under the American crust right now and it’s looking for ways to vent to the surface. (23)

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Aug 27

When we talk about inequality, the conversation almost always falls back to income inequality, but inequality is something that manifests in many different forms. (22)

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Kyle Whitmire @warondumb.bsky.social · Aug 27

It’s easy to look at your typical Cracker Barrel patron and say those people don’t have real problems. Don’t do that. (21)

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